Nine fraternities based in this city have pledged to stop the use of violence during initiation rites to avoid deaths and serious injuries to new recruits. | nestleCDN /PDI
Macatangay, also a lawyer, said the fraternities that promised to abide by Republic Act No. 11053, or the Anti-Hazing law, were the Alpha Phi Omega, Scouts Royale Brotherhood, Beta Gamma Rho, Alpha Kappa Rho, Tau Gamma Phi, Alpha Sigma Phi, Alpha Phi Epsilon, Gamma Phi Sigma and Upsilon Phi Sigma.
Tau Gamma fraternity members were linked to the deaths of Ronnel Baguio, a sophomore marine engineering student of the University of Cebu who died on Dec. 19, 2022, nine days after an initiation rite in Cebu City; and John Matthew Salilig, a junior chemical engineering student of Adamson University who died on Feb. 18, 2023, after undergoing fraternity hazing in the City of Biñan, Laguna, but whose body was only found on Feb. 28 in a shallow grave in Imus, Cavite.
To avoid deaths due to hazing, he said they would revoke the initiator’s membership and remove members that would engage in hazing, stressing that “no one is above the law” and “whoever violates the law should be held answerable.”
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